The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-25
NO IA.

enforce IL, and destructive to tho
| children who must submit to the process
/ You find children at nine aud ten years Of
/ age with school lessons only appropriate
/ for children of fifteen. ff children arc
kept i'm school fr9m nine to three O'Clock,
no home study except music ought to be
/ required of them. Six hours Of study is
enough for any child. The rest Of the day
ought TO be devoted torecreatiOn and pure
| fun. But you can not begin too early the
moral culture Of a child or ON too CONF
plete a scale. You can look back upon
/ your own life and remember what mighty
| impressions were made upon you Qt 1vo
or six years of age. Oh, that child does
not sit so silent during your conversation
| to be uninfluenced by it. You say he does
not understand. Although much OF your
| phraseology is beyond his grasp, no
| is gathering up from your talk in-
| fuences which will affect bis inn
mortal destiny. From the ques-
| tion he asks you long afterward you find
he understood oil about what you were
/ saying. You think the child does not APP
preciate that beautiful cloud, but It's most
/ delicate lines are reflected into the very
/ depths Of the youthful nature, and a score
/ of years from now you Will see the
| shadow of that cloud in the tastes and re-
finements developed. The song with which
| you sing that child 70 sleep will echo
/ through all it's life, and ring back from
/ the very arches Of Heaven. think that
| often the first seven years Of q child's life
| decides whether It shall bo frascible, wasp
ish, rude, false. hypocritioal, or gentle,
| truthful, frank, obedient honest and
/ Christian
The present generations OF men viii
pass of very much as they are now. AL
though the Gospel is offered them, the
general rule Is that drunkards die drunk
ards, thieves die thieves, libertinos die
| libertnes. Therefore, to the youth we
turn. Before they SOW vii 4 oats get them
| to SOW wheat and barley. You fili the
bushel measure with good corn and there
will be no room for husks. Glorious Al.
fred Goodman was converted nt ten years
of age. At Carlisle, Pa, during the
progress of a religious meeting In the
J Methodist Church, while many were
kneeling at the foot Of the altar, this boy
| knelt in "a corner OF the church, all by
/ himself, and said; precious Saviour,
thou art saving others, oh, win thou not
save mef" A Presbyterian elder kneit be-
side him and led him into the light.
Enthroned Alfred Cookmanl Tell mo
from the skies, were you converted too
early2 But ! can not hear his answer. Et
Is overpowered by the huzzag OF tens OF
thousands who were brought TO God
through his ministry. Isaac Watts, tho
great Christian poet, was converted nc
nine years Of age. Robert Hall, the great
Baptist evangelist, was converted nt
twelve years of age. Jonathan Edwards
the greatest Of American logicians, was
converted at seven years Of age.
Oh, for one generation Of holy men and
womenP Shall IL be the nextg Fathers
and mothers, you, undor God, are 20 do
eide whether from your families shall go
forth towards, inehrlates, cOuntorfeiters,
blasphemers, and whether there shall be
those bearing your image and carrying
| your name fostering IN the low haunts OF
vice, and floundering in dissipation and
making tho midnight OF their lives
horrid with a long howl Of ruin, or
whether from your family altarB shall
come the Christians, the rpfOrmers, the
teachers, the ministers Of Christ, the com
forters OF the troubled, the hsalers Of tho
sick, the enaetors Of good laws, tho found
ors OF charitable institutions. and n great
many who shall in the humber spheres
of toll aud usefulness serve God and tho
best interests Of the human rnce.
You can not as parents shirk the re.
sponsibility. God has charged you with
a mission, and all the thrones Of Heaven
are waiting TO see whether you viii dc
your duty. We must not forget that it is
not SO much what we teach our children
as what we arc In their presence. Wo
wish them 10 be better than we are, bus
the probability is that they will only
be reproductions Of our own chRrEobala
German literature has much 90 say of the
'specter Of Brockon." Among those
mountains travellers In certain conditions
Of tho atmosphere sec themselves coTIed
on a gigantic scale in the clouds. AZ frs
the travellers do not realize that IL Nv them
selves on larger scale. When they lifi
a hand or move the hond this monster
specter does the same. and with such ON.
largement Of proportions that tho scene
II most exciting, and thousands have gone
70 that place just 10 behold The Bpecter %
Brocken. The probability e that aoms oi
our faults which we consider small and
insignificant, II we do not put an end to
them, will bo copied on 6 larger scale
In the lives of our children, and per
haps diiated and exaggerated into
spectral proportions. You need
not go as far OF as the Br0ckeu 70 sec
that process. Tho first ebing IN Inn
portanee in the education on our chll
dreu is 20 make ourselves, by the g-aee a.
God, ht examples 70 Do copied. Tho day
will como when you must confront that
child, not in the church pew on "a calm
Sabbath, bat amid tho conHtarn nation OF
the rising dead, and the hYiug heavens
and a burning world. From your side
that son or daughter. bone Of your bono
heart of your heart, the fathers brow hia
brow, the mothers eye his eye, shall Sc
forth Co an eternal destiny What VIII
be your Joy Il AZ last you heer their feet
In the same golden highway ard boar
their voices IN tbe same rapturong song
illustrations, while the eternal ages last,
Of what a faithful parent could, uBdot
God, accomplish.
I was reading Of n motbsr who, dying
had ali hor children about her, and took
each one Of them by tha hand and asked
them 60 meet her fn Heaven. and @lth
tears and sobs snch aa thoHo only know
who have stood by the denth-bed 81
good old mother, fboy Hil promised
But there was young mau " nineteen
who had been very wild mne raeklaaa and
hand she said. wow, my boy. I want
you to promise me before ! de shat yon
viii become a Christian and meet
ma in Heaven The young
man mnde no answer, fW there was ~
much Cor him % give up II ~ made and
kept such promise. bnt t9n aged methcr
persisted iu saying; "Nou won't deny me
that before ] Ro, viii vouf This parting
must not be forever. Tell mt8 un@ you will
serve God and meet ne iu aao land where
there "a no parting" dilnklnR with
euotions be stood making ap hla mind and
hating and hesitatlnR, bul at last hif
atnbb0rnmaaB yielded. and hn fhrom hia
arms around hia mothers aoek and aaids
eyes, mother viii, / wlll.1 And na be
finished the last word % hls premise
her spirit ascanaod thank God thc
young man kept hia promise. Yes, he
kept i9. May God give aii mothers end
fathers tbs gladaesa ~ Eeir ehiidron'a
salvation.
Train up 9 calia in abo say IS ahlea Be
ahan1a 80. aaa when he ia eid 30 Nii1 nnt depart
from H.
III through good discipline and prayer
and Rodly eEnmpie you nFe acting upeu
that child You have 8 righ1 o. eEpeet him
- grow ap wlrtunuH ama bow nmMw